Can't serialize pydev/stateconf, start on #5055

salt/modules/state.py

@@ -294,7 +294,11 @@ def sls(mods, env='base', test=None, exclude=None, **kwargs):
         log.error(msg.format(cache_file))
     _set_retcode(ret)
     with open(cfn, 'w+') as fp_:
-        serial.dump(high_, fp_)
+        try:
+            serial.dump(high_, fp_)
+        except TypeError:
+            # Can't serialize pydsl
+            pass
     return ret
 
 

tests/integration/modules/state.py

@@ -335,6 +335,14 @@ fi
                 ret
             )
 
+    def test_pydsl(self):
+        '''
+        Test the basics of the pydsl
+        '''
+        ret = self.run_function('state.sls', mods='pydsl-1')
+        import pprint
+        pprint.pprint(ret)
+
 
 if __name__ == '__main__':
     from integration import run_tests